Madness in Civilization

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This ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it. In twelve chapters organized chronologically from the Bible to Freud, from exorcism to mesmerism, from Bedlam to Victorian asylums, from the theory of humours to modern pharmacology, Andrew Scull writes compellingly about madness, its meanings, its consequences and our attempts to understand and treat it.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780500295632
Published: January 2020

Number of pages: 448
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd